How close do you have to be to fuel scoop a neutron star?

masCh

masCh
LOL, please excuse the troll question.

My first neutron star experience did not go so well.

I could hardly see it, I thought I could get a closer look.. then BOOM, dropped for being too close.

Anyway, I've been told that neutron stars are dangerous. So feeling like a wise sage, I turned off most modules in my ship as I've read elsewhere before that neutron star could heat you up really bad as you're trying to use the escape vector. Managed to escape away out of that system with heat barely above 80%.

Then, when I reached the next star, it was an M star.. easy scoop. Right? So I edged close to the star, even closer than I normally do to scoop. But it seemed like I was still far away, because my fuel scoop isn't yet activating.

Then BOOM, dropped out for being too close. What the HECK!

Oh, my fuel scoop - please remember to re-enable your fuel scoop after you've disabled it.
 

iain666

iain666
masCh said:
I could hardly see it, I thought I could get a closer look.. then BOOM, dropped for being too close.
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That's how the first neutron star goes for a lot of people (most people?).

You can only scoop from main sequence stars of classes O, B, A, F, G, K and M.

There are many mnemonics and other aides memoires floating around.

Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me
KGB FOAM
FOG KBAM

Someone will be along in a minute with some more.

I like the first one because that also gives you descending radius of goldilocks zone as you go down the list which helps me to remember where to check for CFTs (because it's the right order rather than just a collection of letters grouped solely for game purposes).
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
A neutron star is similar to a giant atomic nucleus. Except that is it composed almost entirely of neutrons and held together by gravity. So I have to ask, where would the hydrogen fuel be?


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Hooplah

Hooplah
Here's my Link discussing fast fuel scooping while being chased. Scooping requires the right size scoop. Too small and the transfer time will be long and fuel transfer slow while the heat builds up. Generally stay just outside the green ring around the sun with max speed. With a fast scoop this ring can be crossed getting even closer to the sun (and more heat) but you'll be done in seconds rather than minutes.

Different suns also varies the amount of heat so adjustments are required as well as differences with the ship capabilities. Scooping in an Anaconda versus an Asp or Cobra is a whole different ball game.
 
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Sapient6

S
Rikk said:
Awesome story masCh, have some rep! Turned off fuel scoop, who would think that!

​I feel like the only person who read the first line of the OP...
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An expertly crafted troll will fill the net with fish even when accompanied by a blatant tell. That's just how it is.

OP: FYI, you can not scoop neutron stars.
 

tarks382

T
masCh said:
LOL, please excuse the troll question.

My first neutron star experience did not go so well.

I could hardly see it, I thought I could get a closer look.. then BOOM, dropped for being too close.

Anyway, I've been told that neutron stars are dangerous. So feeling like a wise sage, I turned off most modules in my ship as I've read elsewhere before that neutron star could heat you up really bad as you're trying to use the escape vector. Managed to escape away out of that system with heat barely above 80%.

Then, when I reached the next star, it was an M star.. easy scoop. Right? So I edged close to the star, even closer than I normally do to scoop. But it seemed like I was still far away, because my fuel scoop isn't yet activating.

Then BOOM, dropped out for being too close. What the HECK!

Oh, my fuel scoop - please remember to re-enable your fuel scoop after you've disabled it.
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Does this deserve a Darwin award?
 

Whiterose

Whiterose
When near the core, or at the -2000, +2000 zone of the galaxy, I have a post it on my screen. DLB it says. Short for Dangerous Little Buggers. It reminds me to hit zero speed during hyperspace countdown, so I come to a stop when I come out of supercruise. Having said that I have still lost 3% of hull due to neutron stars, as you have to be careful manoeuvring in the system. Its the problem when you are at zero speed, the nice yellow safety line disappears.
 

Anson22

Anson22
I met my first Neutron star in the Gorgonea Secunda system. There I was closing on this white star and it’s not activating the detailed surface scanner… I realised, almost too late, that this was a tiny object as stars go! If I’d carried on moving in at the speed I was going I would have had a nasty accident. I was as close as 35 Light-seconds before the scanner kicked in. Nasty tricksy neutron stars - care definitely needed around them!
 

Macros Black

Macros Black
Surly_Badger said:
One of the Fuel Rats 8A Fuel Scoops can do a neutron star in one gulp.*
(* satisfaction not guaranteed)
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Could not get it to work, have to return it as faulty equipment then...
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Edit: And since I just folded space together with a black hole reading this post, I might as well do some repairs...
Note to self: Must Pay Attention!

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